Chapter 789 - 788: The Treasure Troop Quietly...

Chapter 789: Chapter 788: The Treasure Troop Quietly...

The void, neither indifferent nor passionate, holds no hope, nor despair. There is no path to take, yet it contains the possibility of every path—it is such a place.

"Where there’s a will, there’s a way," the Captain looked into the distance, his tone mellow, "When it’s time to move forward, we move forward, most of the time, all we can do is make sure every plan is ready."

"Let’s try the calibrator again," Yu Sheng suddenly said, "I think this plan is better."

The Captain turned his head, "Are you sure you want to help?"

Yu Sheng laughed, "I’m sure, didn’t I say so just now."

"...I’m just still a bit surprised," seeing Yu Sheng’s response, the Captain said seriously, "After all, you once said you have no attachment to the Old World, and no expectations or longing for the New World. Even putting that aside, today is the first time you’ve heard my plans, for such a big matter, I thought you’d ponder over it a bit more."

Yu Sheng didn’t speak for a moment, just rubbed his chin silently, lost in thought.

After a while, he suddenly lifted his head and said something seemingly unrelated, "You know, Hu Li eats several meals a day."

The Captain said nothing, keeping his gaze on Yu Sheng’s eyes.

Yu Sheng continued talking to himself.

"...Most of the time she’s not actually hungry, the food goes straight into the fusion reactor inside her, converted into stored energy—she keeps eating, keeps storing, until she can’t store any more, that’s when she feels temporarily a bit safer.

"But her situation is always improving, now she loves eating chicken legs and noodles—she’s starting to care about the taste of food again, rather than just stuffing anything into her mouth.

"Luna usually likes farming and keeping all kinds of plants on the balcony, she doesn’t say much outside, but she secretly chatters away a lot, always playing and bickering with Hu Li and Erin, because the former keeps stealing her crops and the latter... fights with everyone.

"And there’s Freyia, she recently joined the travel agency, none of us knows what she’s thinking every day, but she’s probably the most free among us, she loves chasing after bright things, even running after lightning in stormy weather...

"I also take care of a group of orphans, the youngest is only five, the oldest is in college. They’ve built a little town in my valley, that place is lively every day...

"Of course, there’s also Erin, the most rambunctious one around me. I don’t know what her ’factory setting’ was when she left you, but with me, she’s causing trouble every three days, and offending netizens online the rest of the time, but the children in the valley all like her a lot..."

Yu Sheng paused, taking a deep breath and looking at the Captain by his side.

"This ’Bartok’ you mentioned, I don’t know how he was back then, but you said he has no attachment to the Old World... that might not be true," Yu Sheng said slowly, "I still reminisce about that seaside town under the sun—it might just be an ordinary corner of Bartok’s homeland world, maybe the last place in the Universe that remained before destruction when Bartok was born, but when I think of it, I always feel... warm.

"That God of Death might not have been without attachment, he just knew that what he longed for could never return... that seaside town melted in sunlight, it seems, really can’t go back to it.

"The Death God is dead, there’s nothing left worthy of him staying in this world... but I have, not just some, but a lot."

Yu Sheng finished speaking and stood up from beside that mound of earth, brushing off the dirt on him.

The Captain rose as well, letting out a long breath of relief.

The wind picked up again over the wilderness, but this time it didn’t seem so hollow and cold. The sound of rustling came from afar, and Yu Sheng looked down the hillside, seeing that layer of bleak earth now covered with lush tall grass at some point.

The grayish tall grass undulated in the wind, forming waves, a small path meandering from the foot of the hill into the distance, with unnamed white flowers swaying on both sides.

The Captain watched this scene with some wonder, then happily laughed.

"Let’s go back and rest, I also need to rethink the calibrator plan based on the current situation," he said, waving his hand beside him, as a continuously expanding vortex of flames appeared in mid-air out of nowhere, "We’ll discuss the details of this plan later."

Yu Sheng stepped through the flame vortex along with the Captain, and after a brief haze, he found himself back in the Antique Shop located in the ’Main Drive Sequence’.

The Antique Shop was as it was when he left, quiet inside and out, and through the shop window, one could see the streets of the small town, with several Alice Puppets wandering around on the road.

Seeing this scene, Yu Sheng started rubbing his chin, and beside him, the Captain also started rubbing his chin.

Yu Sheng had no idea what the captain was thinking, but the first thought that popped into his mind was that he’d been away for so long, hopefully the few treasures he brought couldn’t have caused too much trouble...

It turned out that perhaps his Spiritual Intuition was at play, as the thought had barely come to him when he felt a stirring in his heart, followed by a rattling of footsteps from outside the door. The next second, the door was pushed open with a bang, and a petite girl in a black dress stood at the entrance and started yelling:

"Captain! It’s bad! A Fire Fox appeared from nowhere and started fighting with our Bone Pigeon! Also, there’s a huge giant moth hanging on the Sun Tower and it won’t come down... Who’s this?!"

The girl in the black dress standing at the door realized belatedly and saw Yu Sheng next to the counter. Yu Sheng also stared wide-eyed in shock at the intruding stranger, and then he saw the girl holding a chain.

The chain seemed to extend as if it was part of her body, and at the end of the chain was a snarling Skeleton giant beast, its black bone plates formed some kind of canid shape, but within the plates surged dark red light, and black smoke swirled around the beast, inflating and rising like breath.

Then Yu Sheng saw the Skeleton giant beast approaching him.

He wasn’t too nervous, judging by the captain’s reaction, this was probably an ally—though as the giant beast sniffed him twice, the red light in the empty eye sockets on its head contracted sharply and it spoke hesitantly: "This aura feels a bit familiar..."

"This is Shirley," the captain raised his hand to introduce the girl who had suddenly come running over, "and next to her is her partner Gou..."

Yu Sheng blinked, quickly recalling: "Ah, I remember now, Erin learned from her when she was little!"

The girl in the black dress turned her head instantly to look at the captain: "Erin’s back?"

"We’ll talk about that later," Yu Sheng reacted at this moment, rapidly speaking, "What did you just say? Who’s fighting whom? Where are they fighting?"

The girl named Shirley raised her hand to point in a direction outside the window: "I just got back and saw outside, up in the sky, a fire-spouting..."

Just as she spoke halfway, Yu Sheng heard a loud crash from outside the window, followed by two large fireballs streaking across the sky; Hu Li flew ahead, chased by the flaming peculiar pigeon, and then a series of reverberations, and the two fireballs charged straight towards the Antique Shop.

Upon seeing this, Yu Sheng’s hair stood on end, and he dashed towards the door, with the captain and Shirley (along with the ugly bony dog) quickly following him.

Just as they reached the Antique Shop’s entrance, they saw the demon fox girl had landed on the ground not far away, then rolled over and transformed into a fluffy silver-white little fox, darting into Yu Sheng’s arms in no time.

The little fox looked up, whining and complaining: "Savior, Savior, that pigeon is chasing me to bite!"

Just then, the pigeon saw the captain and immediately stopped, flopping into a waddling, seemingly flightless state, while angrily strutting around on the ground: "Messing with my fries, messing with my fries..."

Yu Sheng: "...?"

Then he saw the little fox in his arms looking up, her face brimming with joy: "Savior, let me tell you, I found a really magical place by the pier, in the barrels there are endless fries and chicken nuggets, and nearby there’s a fountain spewing cola and ketchup..."

Yu Sheng: "..."

He figured out what was going on at once, and while rubbing the fox’s head in his arms, he turned to the captain with an embarrassed smile: "Uh, maybe she is..."

Before finishing the sentence, Yu Sheng heard rattling from afar again, and a few flashes of intense light passed by in the sky.

Quickly looking up, he saw a small light sphere floating beside the artificial star atop the distant silver-white Tower. From afar, he could vaguely see the outline of Freyia inside the light sphere—Miss Angel was completely overcharged, glowing like a searchlight, wandering round and round above the Tower...

Then Yu Sheng squinted, finally vaguely seeing a leaping arc of flame on the surface of the artificial star, flame leaping and popping in the air, repeatedly driving away Freyia, who wanted to perch on the little sun...

The black dress girl next to the captain glanced up at this scene, muttering very softly, "I told you there’s another huge giant moth..."

Yu Sheng’s face turned pale, and he called out, "Luna!"

A shadow flashed through the air instantly, Luna appeared seemingly teleported from nowhere, with a knife raised attempting to stab Yu Sheng—but fortunately, she reacted quickly, realizing Yu Sheng hadn’t called her over to bleed.

"Go call Freyia down," Yu Sheng pointed to the distant Sun Tower, "You communicate better with her."